Major Stakeholders 1
Rehabilitation and health-related personal care to those who need ongoing care.
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
Provide around-the-clock social and personal care to the elderly, children, and others who cannot take care of themselves.
Provided primarily to the elderly, chronically ill, and mentally impaired.
Home Healthcare Services
One of the fastest growing components of the industry as a form of employment because of consumer preference and cost.
Who spends the most of healthcare worldwide?
The United States spends more on health per capita than any other country.
This stakeholder provides total medical care that ranges from diagnostic services to surgery and continuous nursing care.
Hospitals
Integral component of the healthcare system
Backbone of providing care
Represent physicians, nurses, hospitals, long-term care facilities. Also play a large role in government regulations.
Professional Associations
Represent some major stakeholder organizations like American Hospital Association (AHA), American Health Care Association (AHCA), American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA).
What is the organization that provides comparable statistics pf social data worldwide and monitors trends of economic development?
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
This stakeholder is made up of public and private. Opportunities can be more easily found in large states.
Employers
Several segments of the healthcare industry including ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilites.
Medicare and Medicaid. Largest stakeholders in the U.S. healthcare system.
Government
Federal and State are responsible for financing health care through these programs as well as playing the public provider role through state and local health departments.
Who had the highest number of physicians in 2010?
Austria, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland
This stakeholder is the most important for the organization.
Duty to treat
Charitable care or bad debt
Consumers
Patients who need healthcare services either from a physician, hospital, or out patient facility. Consumers also purchase drugs from their provider or over the counter from pharmacies.
Provides the fewest number of jobs in the industry.
Laboratories
Medical and diagnostic can take blood, take scans or X-rays, or preform other medical tests.
Which countries nursing continued to degrade?
The United States. Denmark's rate was the highest and continued to increase.
Practice in group to reduce administrative costs. Have a very positive job outlook due to the aging of the US population.
Physicians and Other Healthcare Practitioners
Dentists, chiropractors, optometrist, psychologists, therapists, and alternative medicine practitioners.
These institutions help formulate behaviors of the healthcare workforce.
Educational and Training Organizations
Medical schools, nursing schools, public health schools, and allied health programs are responsible for the training of employees.